Professors Shawn Klein and Michael Perry — my colleagues in Philosophy and English Literature — are co-hosting the 1st Annual Rockford College Sports Studies Symposium: An interdisciplinary conference on the study of Sport, to be held at Rockford College on April 28, 2012 from 10 am to 2 pm.
Panel #1
Chairperson:
Shawn E. Klein (Rockford College)
Speakers:
Erin Flynn (Ohio Wesleyan University): “On the Suárez Handball”
Tatiana Patrone (Ithaca College): “On What Running Could Be”
Christopher Johnson (University of Alberta): “Virtuous Victory”
Panel #2
Chairperson:
Michael Perry (Rockford College)
Speakers:
Christine Neejer (Michigan State University): “Mary Sargent Hopkins, Bicycling, and the Rhetoric of Expertise”
Christopher Garland (University of Florida): “With God on the Sideline: Religious Rhetoric in Tebowmania and the Penn State Scandal”
Jo Ann Oravec (University of Wisconsin at Whitewater):
“Blogging in the Backfield: Social Media in Sport Contexts”
Location: Grace Roper Lounge
Contact: sklein@rockford.edu or mperry@rockford.edu.